The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.

In this bright future you can’t forget your past.

I have never used Auto-Tune in a live television performance, and I have never used Auto-Tune in any of my concerts. That is a promise.

It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.

As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of society.

Well, the future for me is already a thing of the past.

Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.

I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following.

A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise.

If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.

And that means that no matter how we reform health care, we will keep this promise to the American people: If you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor, period. If you like your health care plan, you’ll be able to keep your health care plan, period. No one will take it away, no matter what.

Once I knew only darkness and stillness… my life was without past or future… but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.

Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.

In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary.

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

To our critical eyes, the threads of which the past is woven are, by nature, endless and indivisible. Scientifically speaking, we cannot grasp the absolute beginning of anything: everything extends backwards to be prolonged by something else.

Rome – the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.

Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.

Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.

A promise must never be broken.

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.

Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

I can promise you that when I go to Sacramento, I will pump up Sacramento.

You do indeed have a past, but not now! And, yes, you have a future, but not now! You can consume your now with thoughts of ‚then‘ and ‚maybe,‘ but that will keep you from the inner peace you could experience.

Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.

My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college.

Fashion is inspired by youth and nostalgia and draws inspiration from the best of the past.

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.

People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.

Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation.

The sadness of the women’s movement is that they don’t allow the necessity of love. See, I don’t personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed.

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust.

Better a broken promise than none at all.

Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.

Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.

Liverpool is a club with a big, big, big history, and all the clubs in the world have a big history if the present is not too successful. If you have never had success, then nobody knows how it is, but in Liverpool, everybody knows how it was.

I was adored once too.

The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity – or it will move apart.

The good old days, when each idea had an owner, are gone forever.

There is always a present and extant life, be it better or worse, which all combine to uphold.

Knowledge of the past and of the places of the earth is the ornament and food of the mind of man.

The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace.

The future is purchased by the present.

Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.

One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.

We will keep the promise of Social Security by taking the responsible steps to strengthen it – not by turning it over to Wall Street.

It’s a question of whether we’re going to go forward into the future, or past to the back.

So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the necessity of doing something.

I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.

We came into a broken world. And we’re the cleanup crew.

We conceal it from ourselves in vain – we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it.

Whenever I think of the past, it brings back so many memories.

Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.

Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.

Necessity never made a good bargain.

Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.

No man is rich enough to buy back his past.

In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.

Those who today always look for disciplinarian solutions, those who long for an exaggerated doctrinal ‚security,‘ those who stubbornly try to recover a past that no longer exists – they have a static and inward-directed view of things. In this way, faith becomes an ideology among other ideologies.